Thomas and Jane Holloway - Count Gleichen, c.1883
secondary literature · 2024
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SUMMARY
Royal Holloway's institutional history of its founder, published with the university's c.1883 statue of Thomas and Jane Holloway. It states that Holloway claimed his pills and ointment could cure conditions from stomach problems to paralysis, describes the mainly herbal products as more beneficial than many medicines of the period, but concludes that they were incapable of producing the miracle effects he claimed. Cited narrowly for that institutional historical assessment, not as a clinical trial or a universal pharmacological analysis. Page date, title and wording checked directly on 13 July 2026.
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Royal Holloway, University of London’s institutional account of its founder directly compares the products’ mainly herbal composition with the sweeping effects Holloway advertised. It is the bundle’s authoritative historical assessment of the marketed effects. The British Medical Association’s 1912 entry remains the authority for the pills’ measured composition and reproduced advertising.